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Adam Rawles
Education
Cardiff University
First Class Honors - BSc. Psychology
Cardiff, UK
2014 - 2018
Project: An Evaluation of Spatial Representations of Order and the Efficacy of Online Studies
Research Experience
SPRINt Research Assistant
School of Psychology, Cardiff
Cardiff, UK
June 2017 - July 2017
- Evaluated multiple publication bias correction methods via R-based simulations.
- Collaborated with other researchers through GitHub and Slack.
Research Assistant
School of Psychology, Cardiff
Cardiff, UK
2016
- Worked with Professor Mark Johansen to explore the relationship between paranormal beliefs and confirmation bias.
- Designed and implemented a testing methodology.
Final Year Project
School of Psychology, Cardiff
Cardiff, UK
2018
- Designed an online and lab-based version of a cognitive psychology experiment testing the relationship between actual and represented differences between items in a list.
- Extended the functionality of the developing PsychoJS software to run the experiment online.
- Analysed the difference in responses between the online and lab versions of the study as a secondary research topic.
Professional Experience
Data Analyst
Guernsey Financial Services Commission
Guernsey, CI
2019 - Current
- Recreated and automated the generation of various data reports using RMarkdown and pagedown to produce interactive HTML and PDF versions.
- Created a Shiny-based UI for users to interact with the report generator.
- Spearheaded an effort to better utilise the available data for inferential statistical analysis, including clustering and regression analyses.
- Further developed and delivered R training materials (teacheR and opeRate)
Graduate Data Analyst
ELEXON
London, UK
2018 - 2019
- Performance Assurance Review team
- 6 months
- Implemented a new risk simulation, utilising a Monte-Carlo methodology in R to better estimate the financial cost associated with specific risks.
- Market Analysis team
- Automated and updated market reports, allowing them to be automatically published to the ELEXON website with custom HTML widgets to allow for greater user interaction.
- Developed an R package to facilitate the extraction of energy-related data from the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON called BMRSr.
- First developed materials to teach R to beginners that would eventually become the teacheR and opeRate books.
Projects
teacheR
A book aimed at beginners to the R programming language. Hosted at https://teacher.arawles.co.uk.
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opeRate
An advanced book focusing on applying R skills to data analysis projects. Hosted at https://operate.arawles.co.uk.
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BMRSr
An R package that provides functions to better access the Balancing Mechanism Reporting Service API provided by ELEXON. This API allows access to a large repository of historical and realtime energy-related data. Documentation hosted at https:///bmrsr.arawles.co.uk.
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faviconR
An R package providing a set of lightweight wrapper functions to the RealFaviconGenerator.net API, used to generate favicons.
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